On International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25), a look at Rahul Riji Nair’s film that explores marital rape – an act the apex court refuses to categorise as criminal offence. Debutant director Rahul Riji Nair’s Ottamuri Velicham (Light In The Room) opens to a scene in which a hamlet in the wild coldly welcomes a newly-wed woman. The jeep the wedding party is travelling in breaks down on the way, and the groom tries to repair it. His mother, seated next to the timid bride, remarks that it is a bad omen, and the girl’s face turns bluer. That night, she sleeps beside her husband, a man she barely knows, in a tiny room with a piece of cloth acting as the door. He pulls her close to have loveless sex; she pleads to be left alone. Sponsored Message Get two free audiobooks! ![]() ![]() Listening to a well narrated book is an incredible experience. (And yes, it helps us pay our bills too!) The husband backs off, but not without expressing his displeasure. Light In The Room discusses marital rape, a crime the Indian judiciary and a large section of the society refuses to. It is one of the 24 Indian films featured in National Film Development Corporation’s Film Bazaar Recommends list, and has also been selected to the Market Recommended category of Dubai International Film festival. Set against the backdrop of a dark rain forest in Kerala, the film is a gripping tale of Sudha (Vinitha Koshy), a young girl trapped inside a monstrous marriage, enduring rape and other kinds of physical violence. A number of people witness her suffering from close quarters – a sympathetic mother-in-law who is unable to rein in her criminal son, a little girl from the neighborhood who reminds Sudha of herself, and terrifies her for the same reason, and an elderly man who offers her words of sympathy, yet does nothing to help her. ![]()
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